BITCH IVE REWRITTEN THIS LIKE FUCKING 3 TIMES BC WATTPAD KEEPS DELETING IT AND MY NEIGHBORS HAVE THE FUCKING AUDACITY TO BE FUCKING HITTING THE WALL LIKE ITS A FUCKING BEAT HOLY SHIT IM GOING INSANE
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"Man! You did such a reckless thing!" Zoro grumbled toward Luffy. "Now they'll really come after us! Get ready for it!"

"Yea, we can't cause any trouble! Okay, guys?" Luffy told us.

Law turned around upon hearing that and yelled, "You're the trouble here! We shouldn't stay here too long. Let's move on! Follow me." He walked away and we went after him. He stopped and pointed at a nearby mountain, "We'll go to the ruins of Oden Castle at the top of the mountain!"

Okiku gasped at that. I quirked a brow at her but shrugged it off when she averted her eyes from mine. We all agreed that we would leave, and it was decided that Otama would be sent back to her house with the old man in the bamboo forest while we do what we have to do. She took an apple with her and was taken away from the horse lady that she tamed earlier. Tama didn't leave before expressing her gratitude and leaving Komachiyo to us.

Before we got onto Komachiyo to leave, the entire village thanked us for the food we dropped off. Law was scowling the entire time, which made me laugh.

"Why are you coming with us?" Law asked Okiku, who was riding to the ruins with us for some reason.

She flinched at the question but said, "I-I'm sorry! I've always wanted to visit Oden Castle! I can go home after we get there so I won't give you trouble!"

Law placed his gaze onto Luffy and asked, "Is it gonna be alright?"

Luffy blinked after realizing he was suddenly included in the conversation and nodded, "Yea! Kiku is a good person and she's strong so it's gonna be fine!"

I nudged her side and jokingly said, "Yea, it'll be fine as long as you stop letting yourself get taken hostage. There's nothing to worry about but taking down the people in front of us." She gave me a nervous look before smiling slightly. Wonder what that was about.

Zoro, who was keeping a look out from behind, smirked. "No!" he piped in. "She's hiding something!"

This was quickly brushed off since Luffy questioned why we were going to the ruins. Okiku was clearly distraught that Zoro voice his thoughts, though. My mind shifted as well when Law began to answer Luffy's curiosity. He said we'd meet the ghosts of this place, whatever that meant.

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I looked behind us and then back at Law, who I was sitting beside. "Hey, do you think that was a good idea? Leaving Zoro behind? Don't you think I should have just done it?" I asked.

He shook his head, "You're one of the last people who hasn't been informed about the plan and what's going on here. You will stay."

"... If ya say so," I grumbled. Law knows firsthand that Zoro gets lost, so I guess this is really important.

Once we got to the castle, or what's left of it, Okiku got one look at it and ran away. I was going to get her, but Law reminded me that I need to come with him and Luffy. She'll probably be fine. She's strong enough, probably.

Law led Luffy and I towards tall stones with names engraved in them. Gravestones. "Kozuki Oden?" Luffy read aloud once we were in front of the stones.

"Look at the other graves, too," Law instructed.

My eyes trailed to the other stones. Luffy read another stone aloud; Momonosuke. "What the... was he named after an uncle or something?" I mumbled, rubbing my chin. "These graves are way too old for him to have just passed..." Then I read another stone. And another. What the hell is going on here?

"That gravestone belongs to the brat that you know," the doctor informed.

Luffy's eyes widened, "What?! What are you talking about, Torao?!"

"It's not just him," Law said.

I slowly nodded and directed my voice towards my captain, "Look... it's the whole samurai group we met..." I pointed at each stone.

Luffy grew more panicked. "Wait a minute... when we were on our way to the Land of Wano, I couldn't get in touch with Kinemon..." he trailed off. "D-don't tell me... he's dead?!"

I rubbed my temples and shook my head, trying to figure this out, "No, that just wouldn't make sense. Look, they have moss growing on them and they're withered."

"But then why are their graves here?!" Luffy questioned. He went to grab Law's kimono and yelled, "Tell us what's going on here! Just spit it out!"

"I'm not the one who should be telling you..." Law grunted.

"Then who the hell will?" I asked, getting fed up with all the waiting. I came here for information, not more confusion.

Right after I asked, moaning and groaning started coming from the ruins. Luffy and I looked at each other and then at the ruins again. The sounds got closer and closer to the opening in the broken-down castle, and when a pale hand reached out into the sunlight to grab onto a wooden beam, Luffy and I held onto each other in fear. We started screaming when a ghostly Kinemon stepped into the light and walked toward us slowly.

"Luffy...-dono..." he struggled out.

It took a second to realize that it wasn't a ghost of Kinemon, but one that looked nearly dead. Luffy laughed and patted the samurai's sides happily, "Kin! I'm glad that you're alive!"

"I'm sorry that I couldn't come to get you...It's so great that you arrived safely," Kinemon wheezed out weakly. I had a flashback to being nearly drowned in a whirlpool when he said we arrived safely, but I didn't say anything. He continued, "I'm afraid that I've got the runs pretty bad and I thought I wouldn't be able to... come out from the bathroom tonight again. But I'm starting to feel better. It was painful!"

Luffy moved on from his explanation and looked at Law, "He's alive, Torao!"

"When did I say he wasn't?" Law shot back dismissively.

I smacked his hat off his head and yelled, "Maybe be clearer next time!"

He picked his hat off the floor and grumbled, "It's your own fault for misunderstanding."

This was when Okiku came running out of the nearby tree line, right when I was about to jump Law. She tackled Kinemon to the wooden floorboards of the deck and talked to him familiarly. She seemed much happier than she did a second ago, but to be fair a second ago was when she was crying and running away.

"Oh? Do Kiku and Kinemon know each other?" Luffy questioned.

"Seems like they're very close," Law commented.

I nodded, "Yea. That kinda close." He nodded back. Luffy looked between the two of us, very confused. I refrained from trying to explain it to him since he definitely wouldn't get it.

Once Okiku and Kinemon finished talking, he introduced us as his trusted allies that he'd gathered from overseas. Judging from the expression on Okiku's face, she seemed relieved. That introduction didn't last long, though, because another familiar voice called out from the trees.

"Oi, Luffy! You've arrived safely!" Momo shouted as he came running toward us. His eyes shifted toward me while he ran over, and his smile widened. "(y/n)! I'm so glad to see you!"

I smiled, "I'm glad to see you, too, Momo-" I stopped talking and smiling when the kid leaped into the air and landed on my chest, wrapping his limbs around me to stay up.

Momo paid no attention to my change in attitude and turned his head toward Luffy, "Luffy, I was just practicing my swordsmanship!"

"Goo- WAIT! Get off of her!" Luffy yelled, reaching his hands out to pry the kid off of me.

I stopped him with a hand and sighed, "It's fine, Luffy. I'll let it slide since I haven't seen him in a while, but as soon as Nami comes back..." I shifted my gaze onto Momo and glared him down, "You're immediately getting off."

He grinned innocently and nodded. Okiku came over a second later and greeted the kid, "Momonosuke-sama! I'm glad that you're okay!"

"Mm-hm. Kiku. It's been a while," he responded.

Luffy jumped in and asked, "Is Dog Pops here in the Land of Wano, too, Momo?"

Okiku seemed taken aback by this. "What? Momo? It's rude to speak to Momonosuke-sama without an honorific!" she corrected.

I raised a brow, "Wait so the rest of what just happened wasn't rude? Just the nickname?" She stumbled a bit over what to say to that. Makes sense. It wasn't in the script.

"Oh, that's fine, Kiku," Momo waved off, bringing her back to her original issue. She accepted this and the kid looked back to Luffy, "Of course, Dogstorm is here, too."

"I see. Then it's just them left now," my captain thought aloud.

I nodded, "Yea, I wonder where they ended up. I have no idea where we were before we were sucked up by that whirlpool."

It was then that another voice entered earshot. "Oi! Luffy, you're here!" It was Sanji and the rest of the group. Carrot was quick to give out her minkship to the two of us while Chopper ran up with her, complimenting our new attire with stars in his eyes.

"What took you guys so long?" Luffy asked with a smile.

Sanji pointed at him and yelled, "We were looking for you! Even at the sea bottom! I told you to get (y/n) to safety and what did you do?!"

I laughed and brought his attention to me, "That must be why your shirt is off. Thanks for searching for us."

"Anything for you, (y/n)-swaa-" He spun his way over to me with open arms but stopped dead in his tracks when his eyes directed toward my chest. Not because he's a perv, but because there was another perv on me. "WHAT IS HE DOING THERE?! GET OFF HER!"

I looked down to the kid as well. "Yea, what are you doing here, Momo? Didn't we have a deal?" I questioned, my eyebrow twitching.

He jumped off of me like nothing was wrong and ran over to Nami, happily shoving his face in her boobs. Brook greeted the kid but was greeted back with the kid's dirty perverted look. This caused the skeleton to yell at him as per usual.

Meanwhile, Sanji finished what he previously intended to do and swept me into his arms, lifting me up and spinning me around a bit. I laughed and he set me back on my feet, intending to say something, but Kinemon beat him to it, "So you've returned to the group, Sanji-dono."

I stepped to the side so he could see the samurai better as he replied, "Yea, sorry to make you worry."

Sanji's eyes shifted to Okiku when she called for Kinemon's attention. He instantly went into simp-mode, fawning over her like nobody's business. Before I could react to that in any way, Luffy pulled me over to him and directed my attention to Brook instead, who was trying to pry Momo off of Nami's chest. We proceeded to laugh at the skeleton's failed attempts.

My eyes shifted once again when I caught sight of Penguin and Shachi. They greeted their captain and stopped in front of him. "Oh, it's you guys," Law plainly responded. "How's Bepo doing?"

"He hasn't come out of the bush yet because of the runs," Penguin answered, pointing into the woods.

I laughed some more at that, watching Law complain about everyone before he walked towards the ruins. He looked behind him and called for Luffy, "Straw Hat-ya. Let's have a talk inside. We stole safe fruit from the farm."

"SO IT WAS YOU!" Luffy shouted, referring to the fact that we were accused of taking food previous to the boat we just stole by one of the guards in the town of officials. 

"YOU HYPOCRITE!" I followed up, remembering all the scolding we got when he literally did the same thing as us, just on a smaller scale. He paid us no mind and walked into the building.

As everyone else followed after him, we ran into random wooden beams sticking out of the ceiling and fell victim to many broken pieces of the castle falling or breaking on us. Luffy laughed and said, "What a messy room!" I shook my head at him and sat next to Carrot, who had found a non-crumbling piece of wood to sit on.

Once everyone was settled, the samurai group, plus Law, sat on the opposite end of ours. Kinemon put his hands on the floor in front of him and said, "Luffy-dono! Everyone! Thank you for coming to the Land of Wano! Once again, thank you very much! First, aside from Momonosuke-sama's identity, there is another thing that I haven't told you guys."

"You guys have so many secrets! Just tell us everything! We're not strangers!" Luffy yelled. Our group agreed with him.

"You're totally right... I'm sorry. But you're not going to believe what I'm about to say!" Kinemon stalled some more.

Honestly, how could we not believe what he'd say? We've seen so much already. At this point, I'm pretty sure nothing could take me by surprise anymore. I've been on cloud islands, saw Luffy pull an octopus out of his pants, saw zombies, met living toys, ate dancing cakes. I'm unphasable now.

Kinemon sweated a bit and finally continued, "You know Kanjuro and Raizo. And the three of us here! The five of us together! As a matter of fact... we came from the past! The thing is... we came from the Land of Wano of 20 years ago... crossing through time to the present Land of Wano!"

I stand corrected.

~~~

After Kinemon gave us a quick rundown of the past. What I got is that Oden, the rightful ruler of Wano, was a crazy strong guy that led people to better lives. Orochi and Kaido joined forces and set the guy up, labeled him as a criminal, which later led him to die by their hands. The rest of the samurai that we know now escaped and tried to save their master's family. The only member of the family that went back in time with them was Momo, with the help of his mother's devil fruit. Once they were sent to the future, they still had followers who were willing to help. Everything after that we already know.

Because of all of this, their identities have to be kept a secret. We have the upperhand because no one thinks these guys are going to rise from the grave.

"We are up against huge armies led by Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi! On the other hand, we have... The Straw Hats led by Luffy-dono. The Heart Pirates led by Law-dono. The Mink Tripe- Dogstorm's Musketeers and Cat Viper's Guardians. And samurai with rebellious minds who we are recruiting right now. It is ideal to have five thousand people! But we're not looking to have a war... we want to secretly collect information on our enemies and form a plan... to behead... their leaders!" Kinemon explained.

Everyone cheered and the samurai stated that the battle will be on Onigashima, Kaido and the Animal Pirate's base. We will need a ship because it is a separate island. We will be attacking it during the Fire Festival.

"I see... So we'll beat the hell out of those partying drunken fools and behead their leaders," Sanji recapped. This would have been a good moment for him, but he ruined it by trying to hit on Okiku again, saying she could fall for him due to his heroics on the battlefield instead of Kinemon, who she'd been particularly close with since we got here.

"No, no, Sanji-dono, I think you got the wrong idea! I have a wife and Okiku is just a comrade so we are not in such a relationship..." Kinemon said. He has a wife and he's been perving over women this whole time?

"Otsuru-san is doing well," Okiku commented, catching Kinemon's attention. He was glad that she was alright, but he could not see her until this was all over. Isn't Otsuru the teashop lady? She deserves to know of his misdeeds while he was away.

Sanji complained again about how Kinemon was making her fall for him, and that's when Luffy got the bright idea to say, "Sanji, Kiku is unbelievably strong!" When I gave the teen a look, he only smiled back at me.

"She's not just lovely, but she's strong...! Perfect," the blond complimented. My eyebrow twitched and I tripped him, bring him back to the group so the plan could be discussed more.

Kinemon cleared his throat and began addressing something else: a symbol that he drew so that we could hand them out to the people who had a moon marking on their ankles. The symbol states where and when we would meet for the raid. Zoro and Usopp were helping with the handouts in the capital.

"I bet Zoro isn't helping at all, though," Luffy sighed out. I laugh and shook my head. The guy isn't even here yet, which means he's definitely on another lost moss adventure.

According to Kinemon, Franky is trying to get the blueprints for the mansion by working for the guy who created them, and Robin is posing as a geisha to gather information while entertaining higher ups. We were given tasks as well. I was placed with Nami to pose as a kunoichi.

We all placed leaves on our heads in order for Kinemon to use his devil fruit to give us disguises. I joined in because I wanted a cool new outfit. A puff of smoke concealed everyone, and when it faded away everyone was wearing new clothes. I had a costume similar to Chopper's as he'd asked to be dressed as a ninja too. Full body fishnet kinda thing, then a short [color] jumpsuit with no sleeves and a ribbon around my waist (like a romper. Imagine having to pee in that. That's my one fear of rompers, otherwise they're very cute). 

"Ninja!" the reindeer cheered, jumping into the air.

I caught him and smiled, "You look pretty cool, Chopper."

"You too! Nin-nin!" he chimed, placing his hooves together.

I laughed and nodded, "Nin-nin to you, too."

"Nin-nin~!" Sanji jumped in, hearts in his eyes. "You look amazing, (y/n)-swaa-"

I held up a hand in front of his face to stop him. "You can go fawn over Nami. She's fallen more victim to Kinemon's pervyness than me," I told him, jabbing a thumb behind me with Chopper in my other arm. 

The hearts in his eyes broke and he fell to the ground, sulking. I paid him no mind and instead watched Nami question her attire, stopping Kinemon from trying to move on from the new disguises. "That's how a kunoichi... SHOULD LOOK!" Kinemon responded, blood dripping from his nose.

"Are you lying?!" Nami yelled, getting in his face.

He wiped the blood from his nose and said, "Now, I'm going to summon a guide. She is a real kunoichi. SHINOBUUU!"

He snapped his fingers and out came a bright pink clad woman with pigtails. My outfit was much closer to hers than Nami's was, but it was definitely showing a lot more than Shinobu's, that's for sure. "Did you call me?" she asked once she looked up at us.

Nami whipped around and slapped Kinemon across the face, sending him flying. "This is TOTALLY WRONG!" she screamed.

Brook fell to his knees in despair. Meanwhile, Sanji still hadn't moved past what I said earlier. Chopper hopped out of my arms and tried to help him, but he didn't budge. I don't have to feel sorry, he goes gaga over every woman he sees. I'm coming to realize that I shouldn't get caught up in his swooning. It's getting to me. Not like I dislike him for it or anything, I know it's just how he is, it's just that I need to accept that he does it for everyone.

While I was going through this mental crisis, Nami stood over Kinemon and said, "Kinemon, is this your taste?"

The samurai held up two fingers and explained, "Kunoichi are either sexy or frumpy. There are only two kinds of them..."

Nami looked between her and Shinobu before muttering, "I guess it's fine if I tighten it a bit."

I crouched next to Kinemon and told him, "I'm going to tell your wife about all of this."

The frightened look on his face was a correct reaction. Otsuru was a scary woman. I walked away before he could say anything to defend himself or stop me. "Brook, what are you disguised as?" Luffy asked as I walked over to him.

"A person who wears panties on his head. That's what I thought, but I was wrong!" Brook answered.

"I think if you could, you would do that without a disguise," I said.

"Eh?! I wouldn't put them on my head!" he defended. That just means he'd put them somewhere else.

This conversation ended when Shinobu introduced herself to everyone, saying her signature move was Seduction Jutsu or something. She was directing her words kind of at Sanji, who sank lower into the floorboards.

Before we exited the castle, Kinemon told us about three samurai we should look for: Kawamatsu, Ashura Doji, and Denjiro. He said they would help us a bunch in the fight.

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OMFG BRUH I CANT BELIEVE WATTPAD DELETED THIS CHAPTER>!?!?!! But whatever. Now it's remade but not exactly how it used to be.

ANYWAY. To reiterate the Sanji thing... U CANT REALISTICALLY TELL ME THAT U WOULD WHOLEHEARTEDLY ACCEPT HIS SIMPING AROUND. ITS CONFUSING. I hate being confused. So. This.